Turn on the television or the radio these days, and all you're likely to hear about is "pink slime", the media's scary buzzword for a perfectly harmless (and tasty) thing the meat industry refers to as "lean finely textured beef". This stuff has come under fire recently, even though it's been in ground beef for years. If you ask me, "lean finely textured beef" sounds pretty darn prestigious (and tasty), like the description of a burger found in one of those fancy restaurants where the waiters speak in fake European accents, peddling glasses of French spring water for twenty bucks a pop. However, the dodo-brained dimwits of the world have undertaken a crusade to remove "pink slime" from America's beef supply. Pink slime is used as a filler, which is what makes beef affordable (and tasty). By removing this harmless (and tasty) substance from ground beef, food costs are going to soar.... all because of the negative press gen...